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- From: s5uagm@fnma.COM (Andrew Miller)
- Subject: Re: Potted vegetables, ideas needed.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.153256.5860@almserv.uucp>
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- Organization: Fannie Mae
- References: <fWMPekm@quack.sac.ca.us>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:32:56 GMT
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- In article fWMPekm@quack.sac.ca.us, pharvey@quack.sac.ca.us (Paul Harvey) writes:
- >In article <BzFHG7.1D9@dale.cts.com> npm@dale.cts.com (Nancy Milligan) writes:
- >>Does anyone know if it's feasible to grow potatos in a pot? That might
- >>be kind of fun.
- >
- >Yes. They grow quite well in pots and fine potting soil. The trick to
- >growing potatoes is to keep mounding up the soil around them as they
- >grow, meaning you keep adding soil and burying the plant as it grows
- >except for the top couple of leaves. The potatoes are formed on the stem
- >underground. So, for potatoes you'll need a tall pot. A trash can works
- >well, but smaller containers will do also.
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- Why go to all this trouble to grow a crop of something which is
- readily available, stores well, and cost so little at the green grocer?
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- If it was a a 100 liter tub of _T_omatoes, I could understand, but
- _P_otatoes?
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- - Andrew -
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